Word: decoys
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...coast. Soon the warning lights on my display panel were lighted up like a pinball machine. I was able to evade an incoming AA-10 Alamo missile by releasing a burst of radar-deflecting chaff, and I fooled an SA-10 surface-to-air missile by sending out a decoy drone. But all the electronic countermeasures in the world were not going to get me back to my aircraft carrier in the Gulf of Sirte now that the Libyan air force was on my tail...
...AIDS virus. Natural CD4 attracts gp120, a molecule on the surface of the AIDS virus. In the usual course of the disease, the virus uses the natural CD4 to attach itself to a T-4 cell, which it invades and ultimately destroys. Synthetic CD4, however, acts as a decoy by latching onto the AIDS virus and rendering it incapable of binding to T-4 cells -- a process that a National Cancer Institute spokesman likens to "putting putty all over a porcupine...
...With MIT's shot clock winding down towards zero, Ogilvie and Tara Gustilo released their defensive assignments and sprinted down the pool two-on-zero. Ogilvie swam the ball in, and--using Gustilo as a decoy--got Harvard's game-winner...
...move allows Mills more freedom to roam, but last year's national Rookie of the Year isn't taking over the field. Mills has given his fellow forward teammates the opportunity to score more often while he acts as a decoy to opposing defenders...
...metal pellets, the low-yield weapon could wreak havoc. Unlike a standard nuclear explosion, which would vaporize the pellets and barrel, this one would spray the pellets through space at speeds up to 100 times that of a high-velocity rifle bullet. These pellets could not only burst the decoy balloons that would accompany a swarm of warheads but also destroy incoming missiles before their warheads were released...